Once, I asked a lady friend why she buys this very expensive wool and spends weeks knitting a sweater, when she could buy a perfectly knitted finished garment for half the price. She said, she liked knitting. So, despite all the advances in automation, I suspect that in my life time the hard-code shooters will still enjoy lugging their cameras over the most difficult terrain and make their own compositions, even at a risk of getting frostbitten, mauled by a bear, or occasionally forgetting to reset the ISO and shutter speed (which, of course would never happen with a camera on a rover).
On the other hand, addressing Allain's point of giving automated cameras same chances of success as self-driving cars, Elon Musk of Tesla recently stated that in not so distant future, human driving could be outlawed. So it is not inconceivable, that in a few years any documentary photography by tripod-wielding bipods will be banned, too. Now, that I think of it, some places have already started to impose ban on photographers. So, get that old Provia film out of the freezer and start shooting while you can.